14 Bible Verses About Our Advocate
14 Bible verses about Our Advocate to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate in the Father’s presence, Jesus Christ, who is righteous.
Who is going to condemn them? Christ is the one who died; still more, he was raised, and he is at the right hand of God, where he pleads on our behalf.
For this reason he is able to save completely those who approach God through him, since he is always alive to plead on their behalf.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and humanity, Christ Jesus, himself human,
So I will give him a share among the many, and he will split the spoils with the mighty, because he emptied out his life to the point of death and was reckoned among the rebels. It was he who bore the sin of many, and he pleads on behalf of the rebels.
For it was not into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the real one, that Christ went. He went into heaven itself, and there he now appears before the face of God on our behalf.
We have, then, a great high priest who has gone through the heavens: Jesus the Son of God. So let us keep a firm grip on the confession we make. For the high priest we have is not one who cannot share the feeling of our weaknesses; he has been put to the test in every way, as we are, but without sinning. So let us, with confidence, approach the throne of grace, to receive mercy and to find grace that brings help just when we need it.
I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on the world’s behalf, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they belong to you.
But he remains forever, and so the priesthood he holds will never pass to another. For this reason he is able to save completely those who approach God through him, since he is always alive to plead on their behalf.
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest. He stood before the angel of the LORD, and the Accuser stood at his right side to accuse him. The LORD said to the Accuser, “May the LORD rebuke you, Accuser! May the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is this man not a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
Who will bring any accusation against those God has chosen? God is the one who declares them righteous. Who is going to condemn them? Christ is the one who died; still more, he was raised, and he is at the right hand of God, where he pleads on our behalf.
He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins, and not for ours alone but for the sins of the whole world.
and Jesus, mediator of a new covenant, and blood sprinkled for cleansing, which says something better than Abel said.
Even now my witness is in heaven; the one who vouches for me is on high.